What We Miss When We Focus On The Average : Am I Normal? With Mona Chalabi

It’s tempting to focus on averages when we think about data, but the world is a lot messier than those numbers can make it out to be. So what could we gain if we shifted the attention to the outliers in the data, or as data journalist Mona Chalabi likes to call them, the lost birds? Want to hear more from Mona? Check out her podcast Am We Normal? with Mona Chalabi, from the TED Audio Collective.

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